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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-13"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120313.23.2-589-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Bart Staes2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; ENVI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 vice-chair; CONT (2012-01-23--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Groen (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are responsible for 70% of the cocoa produced globally and the European Union imports 80% of its cocoa from West Africa. We are all aware of the many and numerous reports of child labour. It is a worrying matter. The European Union also has the biggest chocolate industry in the world. We therefore have a responsibility; we have to do something to address this state of affairs. We have to ensure good conditions, both economically and socially. And it is good that we are touching on child labour in this debate. Mr Moreira’s resolution is a good one. It highlights one of two ways in which we can prevent child labour. of those two ways is ensuring greater cooperation, by exchanging know-how, by ensuring that everyone works closely together and, indeed, by ensuring that the distribution sector shuns any producers who use child labour, at any stage of the cocoa production process, without giving them a second chance. However, the second method, ladies and gentlemen, is ensuring fair, good prices. And the International Cocoa Agreement ought to do more about that. It ought to have the clout and the teeth to do something about that because, let us face it, if we have good prices, adults can earn their own money. If prices are low, then we have poverty. Poverty leads to child labour, so ensuring fair prices is an absolute necessity and is a central plank of this debate."@en1
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